Rio de Janeiro – There are 5,073,324 agricultural properties in Brazil, spanning a combined 851.487 million hectares, or 41% of the country’s total area. Occupied area was up 5.8% compared with the latest survey, from 2006, even though the number of rural properties decreased by 102,312.
The figures are from the 2017 Agricultural Census, whose final results were made public this Friday (25) by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). Census manager Antônio Florido explains that the number of large properties increased, and new establishments in frontier regions like the North and Northeast, while the number of properties in the Northeast decreased.
“In the Northeast there was a decreased in number of establishments and crop area. This may have been due to non-replacement of aging farmers and the drought that preceded the census. It was a very severe drought that made some people leave their properties,” said Florido.
Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
